Wall Street Walks
One of the real highlights here in New York City is the financial industry and its physical impact on downtown Manhattan. Wall Street is more than just a street. The term also signifies an area of only a few blocks radius at the tip of the island.
I met Annaline Dinkelmann, owner of Wall Street Walks, www.wallstreetwalks.com, through one of my Brain Exchange Roundtable meetings. She invited me to attend one of the walks, which I did in May.
She’s a great tour guide and it was clear she loves her work. The tour was really quite interesting and I learned a lot I didn’t know. The highlight, of course, was seeing the gold in the vault at the NY Federal Reserve.
She has created a new “walk”, and I want to let you know about it. It’s called “Women of Wall Street”.
To kick-off the Women of Wall Street walking tour, Annaline has partnered with the Museum of American Finance and will start the walking tour with a visit to their new exhibit, Women of Wall Street.
These tours will be on Wednesdays in June 2009. Tours start at 11:00 a.m. and meet in the lobby of the Museum of American Finance, located at 48 Wall Street. To sign up, visit http://wallstreetwarls.eventbrite.com/.
Women of Wall Street walking tour (without the exhibit visit) is also available on Fridays at 11 a.m. Please email Annaline at annaline@wallstreetwalks.com, if you would like to join her on a Friday.
Bold, beautiful, and influential. Discover the female power brokers who have shaped the history of Wall Street. The tour will expose the women who dared to infiltrate this male-dominated industry. Women such as:
- Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President and opened the first woman-owned brokerage in 1870,
- Hetty Green, a successful business woman whose tough nature and intense frugality earned her the title of “The Witch of Wall Street”,
- Muriel Siebert, the first woman to purchase a seat at the New York Stock Exchange,
- and many of the women who are moving and shaking the financial world today.
